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Interview with Nicole, Toby, Donald, Manuel, Jimmie, Jack, David, Rhonda, Paul, Mike, Leo and Liz

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Nicole: 3
Toby: Variable.. never can really tell but most of the time it was either 2 hots and a sack lunch or 3 hots and a cot.
Donald: I got three meals a day
Manuel: They served three meals a day
Jimmie: three meals are served a day
Jack: Lunch and breakfast and dinner
David: We got three eals a day
Rhonda: 3
Paul: 3
Mike: Standard three meals per day
Leo: 3
Liz: We got 3 meals per day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Nicole: 2
Toby: The worst of the worst. Everything is mystery meat and everything they serve you is loaded with starch which will fatten you up. Lots of beans.. They want you to look fat and healthy even though they feed you like crap. Once in a while a church or someone will donate a bunch of catfish or something but most of that goes home with the civilian messhall workers and we rarely ever see anything. Even the bologna is funny looking and smelling. Most of the food and meats are made at other state prisons... Each prison has OSI Oklahoma State Industries and they produce everything from mopheads to milk. The butcher shop also serves as a votech and the feds pay a great deal of money for that. All the good meats are sold to the public and given to the various wardens. There is no such thing as steak and potatoes in prison no matter what you've heard. Then they sell it to each other at highly inflated prices for crap and this is another big accounting scam..
Donald: I got three meals a day but the food was terrible. I couldnt eat most of it. The other inmates where more than happy to finish my left overs out. They loved it but I would of lost a lot of weight if I had to stay there for a long time.
Manuel: The food is not great it is real bland not much flavor and not a lot either so rare to get full so I would rate it as poor food quality but eatable as I didn't want to skip it and go hungry so it could have been worse there wasn't any choices eat or don't
Jimmie: the food quality is poor it is not always hot and not much taste at all and the same things over and over a lot of beans and noodles, spaghetti type dishes and small portions a lot of oatmeal for breakfast and not the good kind no salt or pepper and you have to have your own cup that you buy off commissary for a drink so you may not have a cup right away
Jack: I would rate the food a 2. It was very very very plain. They serve scalloped potatoes with every meal and the potatoes are tremendously under cooked. They would give you a "salad" that consisted of a few pieces of lettuce. Almost every morning they served grits that sucked bad. They were lumpy and cold every morning.
David: Well the food is reall really bad I mean I would not buy any of it ever nore do I think anyone would not healthy at all alot of reall really cheap processed starches they were feeding,as cheap as possible its a bussiness right jail is a bussiness so their you go
Rhonda: the food sucked no flavor, cold ,and you really never knew what you was eating.
Paul: Not very good. It had no flavor at all it was all dehydrated then water was added. The cake was the best part. There was next to nothing to eat for big guys such as myself as the little guys received the same portion as I did
Mike: The food was awful. It all had a similar background taste. It was provided from a company named ARAMARK. The meals were nutrionally sound, and the portions very similar to a hospital meal tray. There were various food groups represented. A main staple item were beans. Very rarely was there any red meat given. Most of the food was processed meaning it was frozen and thawed.
Leo: horrible not enough cold all the time
Liz: I would rate the food a really big 0! It had absolutely no flavor, no flavor at all! Most of the time the food was cold and a couple times the food was either over or under cooked. A lot of people did not enjoy or eat the food. Ever.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Nicole: all
Toby: I truly liked the coffee cake they made for breakfast once a week. I truly hated eveything else. The smell of the food makes a lot of guys gag.
Donald: The only thing I liked was the flavored mix they gave us to mix with water. The foor was crappy.
Manuel: My least favored was goulosh wasn't real sure what it was and they serve a lot of beans chicken was a nice treat
Jimmie: my favorite meal was the hamburgers and my least favorite was the beans or the bologna sandwiches the bologna always looked old and nasty
Jack: My favorite meal was the gulosh or chili mac as some people would call it. Least favorite would be bologna sand wich
David: I had no favorite or least favorit I equally hated all the food they served come on its jail food man
Rhonda: I hated all of it.
Paul: They all were bad
Mike: I did like their version of chicken fried steak, it was one of the few meals with any flavor and acutally resembled what was served.
Leo: no
Liz: I did not like any of the meals, I refused to eat the food there and I ended up losing weight.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Nicole: no. only if you got commissary or were pregnant.
Toby: Extremely expensive... Poor selections.. Kefee coffee.. I bought a burrito once for $4 and looked at the expiration date and it was 6 months out. Walmart had donated all of there almost expired foods to the prison to be served in the messhall and it all wound up being sold to us in the commisary.
Donald: I didnt have any money on my books to go to the commissary. I think some of the snacks would of been better if I could have got to them. It would have taken a lot of money to go back and back.
Manuel: Yes there was a lot of stuff you could get from commissary but it wasn't cheap a pack of ramen noodles are 45 cents when they are only 20 cents at walmart they have coffee candy bars cookies crackers etc
Jimmie: No snacks that you did not buy off commissary yourself there was quite a few things on the commissary but they were more then twice the price what you would pay at the grocery store not real fair
Jack: the only snacks offered was off commissary. Commissary came twicw a week which was nice. They did have a good selection of snacks through commissary. to me the prices are way out of control. I feel it was over priced.
David: No I was never or have I ever ben offered additional snacks while I have ben locked up n,jail that would be nice but I would not exspect it that would just be more money out their pocket
Rhonda: Commissary was cool it had varity of things for breakfast and other stuff.
Paul: Yes. The commissary was priced ridiculously compared to the free world. There was a catering service that provided decent sized hot meals one time per week. There was a great selection of over priced snacks through commissary
Mike: The commissary was available. You obtain almost immediate access as long as someone on the outside has put money on your account. You cannot use any money that you were arrested with. It takes about 24 hours for someone's donation to show up on your account. A wide variety of overpriced junk food was available.
Leo: yes ok very expensive $50 week
Liz: There were no snacks offered out side of meals unless you had money on your books for commissary, which I did not have any money on my books. From what I hear they have some good stuff on commissary but its expensive.

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